021 Mental Health and Contemplative Prayer (with AJ Sherrill)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation
Is There a Difference Between Mindfulness and Contemplative Prayer?
AJ: In being with God, AJ's new book on page 31, you just give these kind of contrast. You say mindfulness aims to empty one's mind, contemplation aims to fill one's mind. And then lastly, mindfulness seeks to release and contemplation seeks to abide. A lot of people are on deconstructive journeys and they'll talk about adopting prayer as a practice of mindfulness. But but they're not the same thing," he says.
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